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Kristin Moriah started the topic Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoUn-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives
This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women’s life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[Read more]
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Kristin Moriah started the topic Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives in the discussion
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoUn-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women’s Lives
This 2-day conference is an opportunity to celebrate and expand the community of Black women’s life writers. Black women’s life writing has been among the fastest-growing literary subgenres in the past several years. Long before this explosion of memoirs and biographies on and by Black women…[Read more]
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Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis contains a table of contents and description for the book, The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation, as a follow up to my paper for the 2024 MLA. Chapter One formed the basis for “Góngora, Inca Garcilaso, and the Meeting of Humanist and Indigenous Modes of Knowledge.”
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Anne Garland Mahler started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years agoHi everyone,I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 16th with your nominations. Thanks!
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Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.
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Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.
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Ligia Bezerra started the topic Seeking nominations for Forum Excecutive Committee Appointment in the discussion
LLC Global Portuguese on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear members of the LLC Global Portuguese Forum,
Happy 2024! I am writing on behalf of the current Executive Committee to ask the membership for nominations for a new Executive Committee member. The MLA is testing a new model based on appointment. The appointed person will begin their term in January 2025 and will serve for five convention years.…[Read more]
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Raj Chetty started the topic CLCS Caribbean Forum panel at MLA 2024 (in-person, Philadelphia) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years agoHey all!
Please join us for this year’s Caribbean forum in-person panel, “Evolutions in Caribbean State Formation” (326), which has been selected by Frieda Ekotto, MLA President, to be included in this year’s Presidential Theme, “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow.”
- Friday, 5 January 2024
- 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
- Loews – Congress B (4th Floor)
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Raj Chetty started the topic CLCS Caribbean Forum panel at MLA 2024 (in-person, Philadelphia) in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years agoHey all!
Please join us for this year’s Caribbean forum in-person panel, “Evolutions in Caribbean State Formation” (326), which has been selected by Frieda Ekotto, MLA President, to be included in this year’s Presidential Theme, “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow.”
- Friday, 5 January 2024
- 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
- Loews – Congress B (4th Floor)
The…[Read more]
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SBussey started the topic Philadelphia plans in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoLooking forward to seeing some of you in Phily! TC Aging Studies has two panels: Thursday, 3:30 (Marriott 308) and Saturday 10:15 (Marriott Franklin-8). We are also planning an informal gathering on Saturday at 9:30, at the Exhibit Hall coffee area. I hope you will come by and introduce yourself to me and next year’s Forum president, Shawn Maurer.…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis chapter explores a tension in postcolonial Indian literature between the monolingual form of the nation and the multilingual tendencies of the linguistic regions through a comparison between the Sahitya Akademi’s (India’s national academy of letters) activities and Tamil putukkavitai (new poetry) writing. By promoting translation and con…[Read more]
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Raj Chetty started the topic UPDATE (January 3, 2024): MLA Emergency Motion on Israel-Palestine in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 2 years ago***JANUARY 3 UPDATE***
We attempted to send the original message (below) via email to all forum members, but the MLA said that wasn’t possible. We only received two replies (both voted “yes”) to the survey we included in that original message and thus ended up taking a different approach (in line with what at least one other forum is doing): we…[Read more]
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Paula Park started the topic 2023 Global Hispanophone Annual Newsletter in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years agoSee attachment of the forum’s first annual newsletter.
We hope to see you at the MLA in Philadelphia!
[1] Scripting the Global Hispanophone in the Iberian Colonial World [Session 99 in the program] on Thursday, 4 January 2024, 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM Marriott – 307 (Level 3)
[2] Afterlives of Slavery across Seas and Oceans – Roundtable [Session 260 i…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman? in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University, Sweden published an article titled “Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman?” in Nordic Review of Iconography.
I present the abstract of this article below and the article can be downloaded for free from the link b…[Read more] -
Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoCentering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoRegistered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]
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Golam Rabbani deposited The Creative Industries in Bangladesh: The Case of Coke Studio Bangla’s “Deora” in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis article analyzes the case of Coke Studio Bangla’s music and performance production titled “Deora.”
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Golam Rabbani deposited In the Light of What We Know: A Novel of Its Time in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoBook review of Zia Haider Rahman’s novel In the Light of What We Know
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Dorothy Stringer replied to the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoApologies for missing info; dates and times as follows:
194 – Lacan and the Event: Papers in Honor of Mari Ruti
Friday, 5 January 2024 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Marriott – Franklin 7 (Level 4)
648 – Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis
Sunday, 7 January 2024 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Marriott – Franklin 2 (Level 4)
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